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Bera Romairone / Alberto Barberis

Teatrostudio

10.- CHF

Fri 13.11

19:00

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ERROR.

Bera Romairone / Alberto Barberis

Teatrostudio

10.- CHF

Fri 13.11

19:00

Buy

erro. is a transmedia research project by composer and critical coder Alberto Barberis and performer and saxophonist Bera Romairone, which explores errors and wandering as forms of resistance within the global algorithm-driven system. The project (www.erro.zone) unfolds through a dialogue between a hacktivist practice of “algorithmbending,” a musical performance featuring digitally augmented instruments, and an interactive light sculpture designed and created in collaboration with visual artist Rajan Craveri. The project’s main artistic output is a multimedia mixed-media music performance—emotional, urgent, and stimulating—that challenges algorithmic computational efficiency and the minimization of errors. The performance, which combines experimental coding, mixed media music, new digital instrument-making, and interactive light sculptures, proposes an original sonic aesthetic of error and an electroacoustic performance based on hacked algorithms that simultaneously explore new forms of social resistance and artistic activism. At the heart of the project’s creative ecosystem is “algorithm-bending,” a practice of sabotaging and altering code that introduces intentional low-level errors into digital signal processing algorithms for sound synthesis and processing. This practice of misuse aims to expose, both technically and sonically, the vulnerability of code and to challenge algocracy and human agency. The show’s dramaturgy is built around various algorithms that serve as a leitmotif throughout the different movements. The live bending process is guided by the centrality of human bodies and gestures through the augmentation of the saxophones and the performers’ bodies. 

saxophones

Bera Romairone

composer, performer 

Alberto Barberis

A multifaceted artist, composer, electroacoustic performer, code artist, and engineer based in Switzerland, active in the fields of contemporary and electronic music, coding art, and audiovisual production. He has performed at numerous festivals, including MA/IN (IT), MMT (IT), Spazio Musica (IT), Festival Aperto (IT), ZED Festival (IT), Seeyousound (IT), MCME (RU), Afekt (ET), Ars Electronica Garden (CH), FIT Festival (CH), SMC (CH), Nachtstrom (CH), the Venice Biennale (IT), TARA (AR), COMA (ES), CCMC (CO), and Electric Spring (UK). He teaches Electronic Music at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (CH) and Systems for Computer-Assisted Music Composition at the Abbado School of Music (IT). He is a doctoral researcher at the University of Huddersfield (UK). His artistic practice integrates acoustics and electronics, coding, robotics, and artistic activism, drawing on his multidisciplinary background in classical guitar (IT), Composition (IT, CH, UK), Film and Media Engineering (IT), and his interests in the digital humanities. In collaboration with saxophonist Bera Romairone, he has been presenting audiovisual works around the world since 2022. Alongside his artistic practice, he develops applications and software for music creation, education, performance, and critical coding.

A dedicated artist and researcher with an insatiable curiosity, Bera Romairone specializes in saxophone, music education, cultural management, and contemporary and experimental music. Based in Switzerland, she has a nomadic spirit and a migrant identity. She was born in Ayacucho (ARG), where she began her musical studies. She earned her degree in Musical Arts from the public universities of Buenos Aires (UNA, UBA). She studied Political Science, a field she abandoned when she received a scholarship from the Mozarteum Argentino to continue her music studies in the Netherlands. She then studied in France and Switzerland, spending time with great musicians and saxophone masters. His qualifications include a Master’s degree in Performance and a Master’s degree in Music Education from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (CH), and a Master’s degree in Cultural Management from the University of Santiago de Compostela (ES). His collaborations with composers, visual and sound artists, dancers, and performers have given rise to numerous interdisciplinary projects. In collaboration with composer Alberto Barberis, he has been presenting musical and educational projects internationally since 2022. In Lausanne, Bera is a member of the theater company 2b, the Société de Musique Contemporaine, and the city hall’s music office. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Hong Kong.